September 2012

I surmised earlier that Tbilisi+35 promised to be rather a wasted effort. You'll recall, of course, that one of the aims was to ... “leverage on the educational agenda that will be captured in the outcome document of the recently-concluded RIO+20...

I spent an enjoyable day in the fresh air at the splendid Weald & Downland museum in Hampshire in August.  If you've not been, and are passing (no unnecessary carbon please!), you might find its collection of rescued buildings from...

The outcome document from Rio+20, The Future we Want, has something to say about education.  Something, but not very much, despite UNESCO apologists' (and the overly-optimistic) talking it up. This is the education-specific text for which we might have some...

A new publication from the IPPR: Oceans of innovation: The Atlantic, the Pacific, global leadership and the future of education: economy, education, political ideas, world politics. training and skills. The blurb begins ... The economic and educational achievements of the Pacific...

The research on the effectiveness of sustainable schools that colleagues and I carried out at the University of Bath some while back has been reinstated on the DfE website.  You can find it here.  This was originally removed when all that...

As I noted earlier, on Monday, I'm giving a talk on the potential benefits and risks of ESD indicators at a symposium at the University of Bern which explores an ESD indicator set  that has been generated by researchers and practitioners...